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The metamorphosis, In the penal colony, and other stories : with two new stories / Franz Kafka ; translated by Joachim Neugroschel.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
- Standardized Title:
- Erzählungen und kleine Prosa. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Translations into English.
- Kafka, Franz.
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 316 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner Paperback Fiction edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 2000.
- Summary:
- Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, "The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories" has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as "The Judgment" and "The Stoker" -- now includes two new stories, "First Sorrow" and "The Hunger Artist."
- Contents:
- Conversation with the worshiper
- Conversation with the drunk
- Great noise
- Children on the highway
- Exposing a city slicker
- The sudden stroll
- Decisions
- The outing in the mountains
- The bachelor's unhappiness
- The businessman
- Absently gazing out
- The way home
- The people running by
- The passenger
- Frocks
- The rejection
- Reflections for amateur jockeys
- The window facing the street
- The wish to be an Indian
- The trees
- Unhappiness
- The judgment
- The stoker
- The metamorphosis
- In the Penal Colony
- The new lawyer
- A country doctor
- Up in the gallery
- An ancient manuscript
- Before the law
- Jackals and Arabs
- A visit to the mine
- The next village
- An imperial message
- The anxiety of the head of family
- Eleven sons
- A fratricide
- A dream
- A report for an academy
- First sorrow
- The hunger artist.
- ISBN:
- 0684800705
- OCLC:
- 44180312
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